two's complement bytes

[Adam W.]

On Aug 24, 1:11 am, castironpi <castiro... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 23, 11:52 pm, "Adam W." <AWasile... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Aug 24, 12:23 am, castironpi <castiro... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Try this out.  Does it come close to what you want?
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> > > import struct
> > > struct.pack( 'i', ~10 )
> > > ~struct.unpack( 'i', _ )[ 0 ]
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> > > >>> import struct
> > > >>> struct.pack( 'i', ~10 )
> > > '\xf5\xff\xff\xff'
> > > >>> ~struct.unpack( 'i', _ )[ 0 ]
> > > 10- Hide quoted text -
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> > > - Show quoted text -
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> > Humm, so how do you use it :P  Let me give you some examples and then
> > you can run it through:
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> > 0b1111110010010000 or 0xFC90  Should equal -880
> > 0b0000011111010000 or 0x07D0  Should equal +2000
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> In this case I look at:
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> >>> struct.unpack( '>h', '\xfc\x90' )[0]
> -880
> >>> struct.unpack( '>h', '\x07\xd0' )[0]
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> 2000- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

Perfect, thank you!  I will have to read up on struct to see how you
did that.